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#381 out of 956 reef tanks worldwide |
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5.99 |
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Still trying to get a good picture to show all the colors. |
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The question of life is 'why?' The answer is 'why not?' |
| About Yourself: |
I have always had freshwater tanks while I was growing up, then after a visit to the Georgia Aquarium, I decided that I wanted to try salt. Wanted to do a fish only tank at first with artificial corals.... but that idea didnt last long... thousands of Dollars later, I finally have my own little ocean. :) |
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Buy the right stuff the first time.... there is no cheap way to do this. |
| Fish Kept: |
1 False Percula
1 Yellow Tail Damsel
1 Domino Damsel
1 Blue Devil Damsel
1 Striped Damsel
1 Yellow Cromis
2 yellow tang
1 black cap baslett
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Devils Hand Leather, Clove polyps, Colt, Blue tip Acropora, Green Birds nest, Red Lobo brain, Variety of Mushrooms and Zoanthids. Yellow polyps. Some Encrusting hard coral that I dont know the name of. Green star poylps. yellow cup coral. Orange tree sponge, and a plant that I also dont know the name of. |
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90 |
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90 gal reef setup, about 3 months old. 2-250 watt 15,000k metal halides. 4 65watt CF Actinic lights, and LED moonlights. Overflow box with wet/dry sump. Fluval canister filter, multiple power heads for circulation. Lost track of how many Lbs. of Live rock. Finally got what I wanted, now I just need time for things to grow. |
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#382 out of 956 reef tanks worldwide |
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5.99 |
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75 gallon reef starting to recover from total coral loss 2 months ago. |
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Join a good forum(RC or NR) and just read as much as possible and go slowly. I have had very few problems because I took it nice and easy. |
| Fish Kept: |
Regal, Yellow Tang
Saddleback Clown
Kupang Damsel
Green Chromis
Cleaner Wrasse
The clown,chromis and wrasse are not mine and just being held for short time. |
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Mostly an LPS and Zoanthid tank |
| Tank Size: |
75 |
| Description: |
Standard 75 Gallon
Lighting: 4 T5HO
Water Movement: 3x Koreila 3
LR:100lbs
Sump/Ref: 30 Gal, Turboflotor 1000 w/ Recirc, DSB w/ macro algae |
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#383 out of 956 reef tanks worldwide |
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5.99 |
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115 |
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90 Gallon Coral Reef |
| Advice: |
Ask a lot of questions and don't be afraid to try new things! |
| Fish Kept: |
Hippo Tang, Pecular Clown, Flame Angel, Purple Fire |
| Corals/Plants Kept: |
LPS, Leathers, Xenia, Mushrooms, Zoos, SPS |
| Tank Size: |
90 |
| Description: |
This is a 90 gallon all glass aquarium; VHO lighting; Euro Reef RS 180 protein skimmer; Phos reactor; 40 gallon sump; Mag 9 return pump; Koralia 3 power head for flow |
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#384 out of 956 reef tanks worldwide |
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5.99 |
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322 |
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1week old 180 gallon tank |
| Advice: |
Find a good LFS |
| Fish Kept: |
mated pair of ocellaris clowns, mated pair of yellow watchman gobies, lunar wrasse, did have a mated pair of pink skuns the female jump out. one hippo tang, orange spot file fish. lots of critters |
| Corals/Plants Kept: |
pearl coral, pink tip plate coral, large finger leather, toadstool leather, yellow leather, long tentical anemone, buble tip anemone, christmas worm rock, coco worm with a baby attached, metallic green gonapora, branch gonapora, some zoanthids and some mushrooms. |
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125 |
| Description: |
9 months old
180 reef tank 270lbs of live rock. 125 coral life skimmer. 3 150w metal halides, 4 96w actenic blue power compacts with moon light combo. 30 Gallon sump. UV Sterilizer 8 watt |
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#385 out of 956 reef tanks worldwide |
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5.99 |
| Number of Votes: |
470 |
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MY 150 gallon Saltwater Aquarium. I wouldn't personally call it a reef, (I only have 6 corals) but, by definition it is. Oh, and sorry about the angle, I have the tank positioned so that I couldn't get far enough away from the tank to get a front picture. Also, please let me know what you think. But go easy on me I put alot of work into this. |
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Ignorance Is Bliss, And People Like To Be Happy |
| About Yourself: |
I first got into the hobby when I was 11 and have been going for almost 7 years now. I started going to a local salt shop that opened near my house and then promptly closed about 7 months later. However, going there left a lasting mark on me. They had an aquarium that encircled the center of the room so you could stand on the middle and watch as they swam right above me. I started going there after school and pretty soon purchased a cheap little 20 gallon for about 50 bucks. I made so many mistakes and had such a hard time getting it started I almost gave up. I finally managed to get the first fish inside after 2 months of waiting for it to cycle. I had a very basic setup: a backpack filter and a 50/50 light, that's it. However, about 5 years later and after having success with this tank my dad found out that the best aquarist in town was retiring and was basically giving his aquariums away. He purchased a 75 gallon for him and I received his old 40 gallon as an upgrade and I worked for that for about a year. Later when I was 16 my dad got me a job at the best aquarium store in town by telling them that I was an avid aquarists and they hired me after letting me work there for awhile as a temporary hired cleaning hand. About 3-4 months after I'd been working there a gorgeous aquarium came through that a man who was moving had brought in to trade for what we could offer him. I watched it for a month wondering why nobody had asked me about it, my boss only wanted $1200 dollars for the tank which happened to be a 150 gallon oak stand aquarium with a sump and twin halide lights, (see where I'm going with this) everything I couldn't afford but wanted so badly. So, about another week later and about 3 weeks until my 17th birthday I came home on Saturday after running errands. And I saw my boss’s delivery truck sitting outside of my house and he and the other store hand were unloading something. I promptly got out of my car to ask what they were doing there; no sooner had I asked that they rolled (you guessed it) the gorgeous aquarium that I had been admiring since the day I saw it. When I asked what it was doing here my boss replied “your dad wanted me to give you this for your birthday”. This remains the greatest birthday gift I've ever received. I also had the heaviest workload from this aquarium, for example having to buff the cracks out of the acrylic and then reinforce my floor to withstand the substantial weight, also, not to mention getting the thing up the stairs. And, this is where I am now the tank is about 1 year old now and doing fantastic. |
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Patience. The first thing to remember is that you have to be patient. This is my 3rd aquarium and believe me, My first tank was horrible because I rushed it. Also, be sure to ask around your town and find a good reliable source of information from a local store. I have 4 stores in my town that carry saltwater fish and only 2 of them were in anyway reliable. Also, many things can be used as a tool, pillow batting makes a handy filter, and a credit card/subway card can make an excellent algae scrubber. Finally, and this is the most important thing I have to offer is for you to never shoot outside of your ring of understanding. If you are just beggining for example trying to keep an achilles tang is just unfair to the animal. |
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Hippo Tang, Naso Tang, Sailfin Tang, Bannerfish, Bluechin Trigger, coral Beauty Angelfish, Keyhole Angelfish, 2 Clarkii Clown, 2 Percula Clowns, 12 Green Chromis, and a cleaner wrasse.
Invertabretes: 2 Cleaner Srimp, 2 Emerald Crabs, 5 peppermint Shrimps, 1 Burgandy Linkia Starfish, 2 feather duster worms, and a shortspined urchin (He actually came on one of the rocks) |
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2 Crocea Clams (each about 4 inches), 1 Leather Coral, 2 small colonies of green button polyps, and one small colony of yellow polyps, some sea moss (which is quite nice and colorful in bushes, plus is a great housing for copepods) and some red calerpae which honestly I don't know what it is exactly, I got it on a rock as just a leaf and it flourished (you can see it on the larger rock formation behind the hippo tang). Not really a reef yet, but I'm not exactly working rich so I'm working my way up. |
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150 |
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5 ft long by 2ft wide and 2ft high (7 feet with stand). Sump system, magdrive main pump (unsure of model), phosphate reactor (unsure of make) and an ETSS brand protein skimmer (again, unsure of model but it goes for $300) Twin 250watt 10k halide bulbs with 2 48" blue actinic bulbs (which I installed after getting the aquarium). Also, just out of habit I installed an underground filter. No real reason other than airation with my seasscape airpump and powerhead mounts. |
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| State: California |
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#386 out of 956 reef tanks worldwide |
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5.99 |
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1117 |
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This is the latest picture of my reef tank. It has changed a bit as I removed or added live stock. More color then before. |
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It's a learning experience take it slow. |
| Fish Kept: |
1 manderine
10 snails to help keep glass clean.
2 cleaner shrimp.
2 chromis |
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As for Corals I have:.
1 green Monit cap.
1 hammer wall.
a dozen neon green cloves.
2 sun corals.
1 red with green enchino.
A brown leather.
1 acan with 17 heads.
Small frag of bahama mama zoo's
colony of Rasta Eagle Eye's.
1 Hawaiian feather duster is now in the fuge.
Blastomussa's
1 pink goni with orang mouths.
1 blue goni.
1 hot pink goni.
1 hammer branching coral.
3 differnt types of frogspawn,
1 green open brain,
2 small xenia piece and pom poms, Disappered
1 colony of GSP,
1 coco worm,
A few pieces of growing Red Sponge here & there.
1 Firey Red Indo/ true Rose Anemone,
1 Green finger leather,
3 hairy mushrooms,
Orange, Red, Green Zoos.
RPE zoa started with 2 polyps now I have 6.
Button polyps and a few other stuff I cant remember there names. |
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37T gallon,
24"wX24"hX14"depth.
Using a CPR,
Model AFPSL, Protein skimmer. 24"wX14.5"hX4"depth.
Lighting I am using a 175 MH 20K. And two 24 watt actinic blue pc.
65 lbs of live rock.
30 lbs of crushed coral.
4 LBS of live sand and 4 LBS of rumble LR in the back pack fuge with cheato to keep the nitates down.
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#387 out of 956 reef tanks worldwide |
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5.99 |
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been up and running for one year |
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balaaennu |
| About Yourself: |
;) |
| Advice: |
this is damn hard work. So if you are not well committed DON'T START. |
| Fish Kept: |
fire goby, Yellow russ, clown fish, Dr. fish, Star fish dont know the names well... |
| Corals/Plants Kept: |
Soft coral, Hard coral |
| Tank Size: |
226 |
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DIY tank 60" x 19" x 19" inch
1200L/H power head connected to DIY filter
DIY skimmer
Hailea (HC15A) water chiller - Temperature in tank = 25 degree Celsius
Lighting = 28W x 2 T5 + Hopur Aquarium light 4T5HO-90cm 39W x 4
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| State: Arizona |
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#388 out of 956 reef tanks worldwide |
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5.98 |
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65g |
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I already want to upgrade to a 90/120g :(
Cuz this one ain't drilled!! |
| Advice: |
Take your time and do the research first! |
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Ocellaris Clowns (2), Green Chromis (2), Coral Beauty, Cleaner Shrimp, Peppermint Shrimp, Black Brittle Star, Nassarius Snails (9), Turbo Snails (2), Blue Legged Hermit Crabs (20), Cerith Snails (5) |
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Stylophora (yellow/green), Pipe Organ Coral, Ricordia (blue/green. orange/blue, pink), Frogspawn (green/purple), Hammer Coral (purple/green), Bullseye Mushroom, Striped Mushroom, Palythoas, Zoanthids (Looney Toons, Tubs blue, Radioactive, Dragons Eye, orange/green, brown/orange, pink/orange, Caulastrea (blue, green), Green Star Polyps, Rhodactis Mushrooms |
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65g acrylic bowfront with 150w 14k Halide - Circulation: Total 1895gph, protein skimmer, 75 lbs LR and 60 lbs live sand, heater, 30g sump/refugium in process of being built |
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| State: Florida |
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#389 out of 956 reef tanks worldwide |
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5.98 |
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2303 |
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20g SPS Nano Reef |
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| State: Florida |
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#390 out of 956 reef tanks worldwide |
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5.98 |
| Number of Votes: |
670 |
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Half tank shot |
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1 Seahorse : Leila
1 Purple Firefish: Nacho
1 Blue Hippo Tang: Ru-Ffi-O
1 Clownfish
1 Cleaner Shrimp: Penelope
1 Peppermint Shrimp: Pierre
1 Emerald Crab |
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pink montipora cap, green montipora cap, pink montipora digitatis, green montipora digitatis, green star polyps, white star polyps, purple mushrooms, red mushrooms, watermelon mushrooms, yellow/green zoo polyps, pink zoo polyps, orange/brown zoo polyps, green ricordia, and colt soft coral! |
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14 Gallon Oceanic Biocube with a drip fresh water top off. |
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